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Prescott Pastoral

Michael New's smart Oxford-based special alongside Simon Hodgins' Jensen-bodied 1930 Minor
at VMR Prescott in July 2005

Morris News

11/3/08  Just a tiny part of the SIXTEEN TONS of early Morris spares going under the hammer with
Hereford Vintage Auctions on 26th March.  See story at 18th February below.

29/2/08  Work is also under way to prepare a quarterly 40-page full colour Magazine for the Society.
Initially, this will be downloadable and printable from this website.
The first issue will be ready by the end of March.

28/2/08  The second EMS Newsletter was e-mailed this evening to 134 members.

18/2/08  This superb 1932 Major Six is currently being offered on eBay.  It is located in the Snowdonia National Park.
Bidding ends 20th February. View it here.

18/2/08  This very smart and original 1930 Cowley is also being offered on eBay at present.  Location Stranraer, Scotland.
Bidding ends 23rd February.  View it here.

6/2/08  Hereford Vintage Auctions has the late Geoff Beech's collection of Morris spares - some 18 tons of the stuff-
to be auctioned at How Caple Court, Wednesday 26th March.  Mainly Bullnose and Flatnose, including TEN rolling chassis with logbooks.
The whole lot fills a barn 60 feet long.  Fancy a rolling chassis?  Bev Hicks hopes to go for a preview next week, so watch this space.

They also have a very rare '27 Oxford Hoyal-bodied Flatnose saloon on offer as well as a very honest-looking barn find Morris 8 2-seater.

1/2/08 Today the first EMS Newsletter was released to our first 131 members.

31/1/08 Work continues to develop the Master Chassis Register which now contains around 1,300 vehicle records
and hundreds of reference images.  Please take a look, and keeps sending in data
so that we can continue to refine the Register.

19/1/08  We have now started the enormously important task of gathering details of every known surviving pre-war Morris.
To date, we have details of some 600 cars, but these are early days and we have a very long way to go.
In order to help build the register, you can download a blank 'pro forma' copy of the register here.
You can use this to enter details of your car, or any others you know about and simply e-mail it back to the Society.
Don't worry if you don't have full particulars.  We will then cut and paste this information into the master register.
(Note, before providing details of specific cars, please check the date when the car was last known to exist.
The register is not intended to be a complete list of every Morris ever built - just the survivors (even
if they only survive as bare chassis).  However, if you have any good period photos, these would be most welcome.)
Thanks in advance for your help.

8/1/08 Much work is going on behind the scenes to populate the Members' Area of the website with data.
The content will grow dramatically in the coming days and weeks.  Stop by regularly and take a look.
And please send in any comments, information, etc. if you have any so that we can
build the best, most accurate and most up to date Morris resource on the Internet.

7/1/08   To help launch the EMS, today we implement a Membership Referral Scheme.
If, as an existing EMS member (and that includes all VMR members), you introduce a new member to the Society,
you will be eligible for a £5 (or equivalent in other currencies) discount on your next year’s Society
(or VMR) subscription when that new member joins us.  In addition, you may refer more than one new member.
If you introduce two or more new members, you will receive multiple £5 discounts
and can end up making money which the Society will pay you!
The system works by the addition of a simple Referring Member section on the EMS Membership Form,
downloadable here.

5/1/08 We have an EMS Forum!  Check out here and register!  Thanks to William Grace for setting this up.
In it you will find separate threads for each Morris model.

31/12/07 All VMR members are automatically EMS members as well.  So to keep membership numbering from
becoming hopelessly entangled, EMS membership numbers will interleave with VMR numbers
and a prefix letter will distinguish.  Therefore VMR membership numbers will be prefixed with a 'V'
and EMS membership numbers with an 'E'.  So I am now V1!  And the first EMS member will be something like E290,
since the VMR is up to member number 289 right now.
Regardless of membership number or prefix, here's wishing everyone
A Great Morris Motoring New Year!

30/12/07 The Models and Chassis Numbers Section is one of the first areas of the website being
developed, along with the registers of surviving vehicles. Plenty of data is available on the Minors
(although we could always do with more!), but we need tons of data on other models
so that we can begin the enormous task of recording every surviving pre-war Morris.
Our goal is to develop this into a very powerful on-line resource,
far exceeding anything that has been available online before.

29/12/07  For the time being, the EMS website is being piggy-backed on the Vintage Minor Register's web server - hence the URL.
In due course, the Society will migrate to its own website.  Watch this space for the new URL.
Similarly, the EMS Forum is initially a part of the Vintage Minor Register's forum, but a new EMS forum is under construction.
Mountains of work are required to fill the Members' Area of the website, but this is being worked on apace.
In particular, it is a major goal of the Society to trace and record every surviving pre-war Morris chassis.
If you have chassis details of your car or cars - regardless of their condition, please e-mail details to the Society
so that we can build accurate registers for each model.

Tom Dixon's Cowley tourer UD 4445

24/12/07 Congratulations to Tom Dixon who today becomes the first member of the EMS.
Tom owns a 1929 Minor fabric saloon and this 1930 Cowley tourer.

19/12/07  The EMS was launched today!